AZ, I still wonder whether the debates that used to charaterise Extra Curricullar activities like Athletics and Football games in Barifa Stadium are still going on?!!!!
If am not mistaken, such debates could have stopped with the Angualia's and Javuru Kennedy's!! These were moments were students tested there grammatical and language abilities, albeit throwing botanical Vocabularies here and there to spice up the verbal exchanges, which I think was healthy. The bottom line is these are no more, sadly! There is general filth of student performance in virtually spheres of our student lives in these traditional schools. I a really particularly interested in reading the outcome of any of these events in finding the roots causes of poor performance and shall through my support in whatever way shall make any difference. Cheers!! Gilbert Adibo On 09/03/2009, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > Gilly, you just said it all..Most schools in Arua I recall during my Ombaci > days tried to compete against us, I believe the yard stick has remained > constant which is evident though. Arua Hill was a pace setter for primary > schools I think, thats no more. > > Wel,the upcoming event on 21/03/09 at Ombaci (St.Joseph's day) will > hopefully be a start to giving students self belief and possibly change > their attitude and make them think positively. > > For those who will be able to make it, its an opportunity to face and > interact with students and staff members. > > > Aza'bo-Francis > Treasury > ..when the going gets tough, the weak fall out... > > > [email protected] wrote: ----- > > To: [email protected], A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile < > [email protected]> > From: Gilbert Adibo <[email protected]> > Sent by: [email protected] > Date: 03/09/2009 12:48PM > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Education in our region > > Dear All, > Ombaci can no longer produce 80 first grades with not more than Aggregate > 6????!!! I just feel such pain in me to see an institution like Ombaci > declining into academic performance obscurity.This is not the Ombaci I knew > and used to envy to join!! > Surely, too many fundamental things have gone wrong in these historical > institutions of education in West Nile. > Fundamentally, poor pay of teachers that has a multitude of effects; worn > out infrastructure; outdated textbooks, poorly equiped laboratories; > Unexposed teachers in the ever changing Global Village; the sudden shock we > need to cope with in terms of technology changes pouring into Africa; and > too much freedom nowadays in schools have all hampered our performance in > one way or another. More importantly, our current students do not have a > self drive of what they really need to do in order to meet challenges of > this ever changing world. > In respect to lack of self initiative, our students do not really have > role models to emulate in order to provide an impetus for hard work.There is > no collective and individual constructive competition between schools and > among students of the same school and other institutions. All these > attributes have vanished without trace among the current generation. > The above attributes were latent forces for our generation to compete and > work hard in order to excel, and these constructive tendencies paid there > dividends, the reason some of us are what we today, albeit amidst poor > teaching and all other odds we went through. Even if one is spoon fed, as > long as the self drive is lacking, we shall be wasting resources!! > A big, big time change in attitudes needs to sweep through the young > generation. > Morals and morals have eroded our societal fabrique and morals have huge > impact in sharping the charater and attitudes of people. > It is very,very sad indeed that the whole of West Nile can perform at > this pathetic records and yet these used to be first grade results of Ombaci > ALONE!!! > These results are for sure so depressing, I have lost pride of that > region in academic performance terms. > Good luck everybody in coming up with lasting solutions. > Gilbert Adibo > > > > On 09/03/2009, Andua Drani < [email protected] > wrote: >> >> I thank you colleagues for the initiative in adressing the challenges >> relating to education service delivery in our once well performing region. >> Let me thank Fr Ruffino for my inclusion in the westnilenet.I had some level >> of discussion with him on this matter on Friday last week in our District >> Local Government office while on his mission to mobilise the steering >> committee. I have given some of my personal feelings about how we have >> reached this low levels in our performance.Imagine that the entire West >> Nile(Adjumani,Moyo, Yumbe, Koboko, Maracha/Terego, Arua, Nebbi and should I >> add Zombo ?) produced 128 first grades in PLE last year compared to, for >> example over 800 by Mbarara. Simply terrible ans unacceptable. >> My best regards. >> Andua Drani >> Arua District Local Government >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WestNileNet mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet >> % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ >> >> >> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including >> attachments if any). 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